Light and exposure are at the very heart of photography. And yet, exposure is one of the topics many photographers struggle with most. In this Learn by Video workshop published in partnership with Peachpit Press, Tim Grey takes you out into the field to help you master essential photographic exposure concepts and techniques. The set includes Austrian mountains, woods, and rivers, along with downtown scenes and interiors. Along the way, you?ll learn how to avoid common challenges and use the available light for best effect. You?ll also learn more advanced techniques including capturing long exposures, utilizing exposure bracketing, and more. Back in the studio, Tim teaches you how to apply these concepts during post-processing to ensure the very best results in your final image, as well as how to apply creative exposure effects in-software, such as creating a high-key effect. If youпїЅve ever wanted to truly master light and exposure, grab your camera get ready for an exceptional photography workshop.

The пїЅComplete CollectionпїЅ combines the video tutorials for six powerful Nik software plug-ins: Dfine 2.0, Viveza 2, Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete, Silver Efex Pro 2, Sharpener Pro 3.0, and HDR Efex Pro. These enhancements for Photoshop, Aperture, and other programs are easy to install and use, enabling you quickly optimize your images without complicated selections and layer masks. In the tutorials trainer and product specialist Richard West shows you how to use the plug-ins to create HDR and black-and-white images, reduce noise, apply sharpening and filters, and much more.

In this course, Photoshop experts Tim Grey and Olaf Giermann look at the new features available in Photoshop CS6 and show you how to incorporate them into your workflow. TheyпїЅll take you on a tour of the interface, which has a new look and different controls in some of the panels, and introduce you to all the new features in areas like adjustments, image cleanup, creative effects, text and graphics, video, and 3D. With this kind of help, you should find the transition to Photoshop CS6 easy as pie.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is an all-in-one solution to your photographic needs, offering image management capabilities, high-end image processing power, and several photo sharing options. Lightroom 4 does even more than its predecessors, with exciting features like a new process version, the new Book and Map modules, and many improvements to the Develop module. In this Learn by Video course, produced in partnership with our friends at Peachpit Press, Mikkel Aaland teaches you how to import, manage, organize, optimize, and share your images with Lightroom 4, making the most of this powerful software at every step along the way.

In this workshop digital imaging guru Tim Grey focuses on the Develop module of Lightroom 4. Starting with an overview of the image optimization workflow in Lightroom, Tim walks you through the process of evaluating your images and deciding what adjustments you need to make. He teaches you how to use the Develop moduleпїЅs presets to achieve quick results, as well as how to apply your own adjustments, from simple exposure and color adjustments to advanced options like the Tone Curve and the Graduated Filter tool. YouпїЅll learn techniques for cleaning up your images, applying creative adjustments, and duplicating adjustments across multiple images. Finally, youпїЅll get some tips for integrating Lightroom and Photoshop to create panoramas and high dynamic range images

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is an all-in-one solution to your photographic needs, offering image management capabilities, high-end image processing power, and several photo sharing options. Lightroom 4 does even more than its predecessors, with exciting features like a new process version, the new Book and Map modules, and many improvements to the Develop module.

Learn the WorldпїЅs Number One Image Editing Software
Photoshop is more than just an image editing application пїЅ it is a foundational staple in all the visual arts, from print design, to photography, to web design, to motion graphics and 3D graphics. In this course, award-winning video trainer and Adobe Certified Instructor Chad Perkins will show you the basics of Photoshop. YouпїЅll learn about the components of visual images, making selections, color correcting, fixing images, outputting images, and much more. This course uses Photoshop CS6, but the information presented is applicable to all versions of the application.

Once youпїЅve learned the basics of Photoshop, youпїЅll probably start looking for ways to exercise really precise control over the adjustments you make to your images. In this unique workshop, Tim Grey takes an in-depth look at working with selections and layer masks to create targeted adjustments. After covering the key concepts behind selections and exploring PhotoshopпїЅs selection tools, Tim delves into a variety of advanced techniques that will help you make accurate selections, create seamless composite images, and apply adjustments that do exactly what you want them to do. This workshop places a special emphasis on mixing and matching different tools and techniques to unleash the full power of what Photoshop can do for you.

Learn to Make Basic, Advanced, and Creative Adjustments
The core strength of Photoshop is the way it enables you to improve the quality of your images, whether youпїЅre fixing a major problem or making a subtle adjustment. In this workshop Tim Grey explores a wide variety of techniques to help you get the best results when optimizing your images. He begins with basics like cropping, changing brightness and contrast, and correcting color balance, then moves on to more advanced adjustments like Shadows/Highlights, Curves, and dodging and burning. YouпїЅll learn how to make targeted adjustments that affect only selected parts of the image and apply creative adjustments that donпїЅt so much fix a problem as add a unique touch. And best of all, Tim teaches all these techniques as part of an overall workflow designed to help you work quickly, efficiently, and nondestructively.

Often photographers who want to learn to use Photoshop just dive in and figure out how to do what they need to do. This is all well and good, but with this approach youпїЅre likely to miss out on features that could help you, ways of working more efficiently, and an overall understanding of how Photoshop works. In this course Tim Grey takes you systematically through PhotoshopпїЅs interface and tools, then shows you how to make basic adjustments and output your work for sharing. Whether youпїЅve been using Photoshop for a little while or youпїЅre just getting started, this workshop will make sure you always know where you are and where youпїЅre headed

The пїЅComplete CollectionпїЅ combines the video tutorials for six powerful Nik software plug-ins: Dfine 2.0, Viveza 2, Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete, Silver Efex Pro 2, Sharpener Pro 3.0, and HDR Efex Pro. These enhancements for Photoshop, Aperture, and other programs are easy to install and use, enabling you quickly optimize your images without complicated selections and layer masks. In the tutorials trainer and product specialist Richard West shows you how to use the plug-ins to create HDR and black-and-white images, reduce noise, apply sharpening and filters, and much more.

Watch it. Learn it. Do it. This exceptional value includes all of Volumes 1–3 of the Wacom MasterClass collection, including lessons from artists Angie Taylor, Steve Caplin, Daniel Lieske, and Uli Staiger.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 has lots of new and enhanced features in many areas of the program, from importing and exporting to editing and audio. In this free course, Adobe Technical Support Lead Todd Kopriva walks you through all of them, including dynamic trimming, the new Warp Stabilizer and Rolling Shutter Repair effects, and improvements to Dynamic Link, multicamera editing, and the Three-Way Color Corrector. YouпїЅll also learn about changes to performance and the user interface, and how these can affect your workflow.

In this unique workshop, digital artist Uli Staiger walks you through the process of using source images, a downloaded 3D object, and PhotoshopпїЅs tools to create a striking composition. After combining source images and creating layer masks, youпїЅll add a 3D object, lighting, and details like steam, corrosion, and a stream of water. Finally, youпїЅll stylize the composition by adding a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer with the Soft Light blend mode. Along the way youпїЅll learn how to work with layer groups, textures, 3D cameras, point lights, and more. Select lessons feature picture-in-picture live footage of Uli working with his pen and tablet, enabling you to see and learn from his techniques up close.

Often photographers who want to learn to use Photoshop just dive in and figure out how to do what they need to do. This is all well and good, but with this approach youпїЅre likely to miss out on features that could help you, ways of working more efficiently, and an overall understanding of how Photoshop works. In this course Tim Grey takes you systematically through PhotoshopпїЅs interface and tools, then shows you how to make basic adjustments and output your work for sharing. Whether youпїЅve been using Photoshop for a little while or youпїЅre just getting started, this workshop will make sure you always know where you are and where youпїЅre headed

The пїЅComplete CollectionпїЅ combines the video tutorials for six powerful Nik software plug-ins: Dfine 2.0, Viveza 2, Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete, Silver Efex Pro 2, Sharpener Pro 3.0, and HDR Efex Pro. These enhancements for Photoshop, Aperture, and other programs are easy to install and use, enabling you quickly optimize your images without complicated selections and layer masks. In the tutorials trainer and product specialist Richard West shows you how to use the plug-ins to create HDR and black-and-white images, reduce noise, apply sharpening and filters, and much more.

Storyline: In the 4th installment of the Mission Impossible series, Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt by the team to stop him at the Kremlin ends in a disaster, with an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF being implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to invoke Ghost Protocol, under which the IMF is disavowed, and will be offered no help or backup in any form. Undaunted, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks to Dubai, and from there to Mumbai, but several spectacular action sequences later, they might still be too late to stop a disaster.

Kinetic typography is an art form that combines text and motion to express ideas in the form of animation designed to accompany spoken word or music. In this unique workshop, art director, author, and motion graphic designer Angie Taylor shares her considerable knowledge of this form.

Correction - one of those skills, which many editors put off until tomorrow - partly because they are relatively simple configuration, and partly because the controls and options are too alien. In this course, master-editor of Maxim Jago removes the veil of mystery with color correction and gives a detailed explanation of the key options, processes and best practices for color correction in Premiere Pro.

Through this series of video tutorials designed around a practical example, Yves Chatain will show you how to use Photoshop CS4, reference tool for professionals in the field of image editing in order to give a glamorous effect to your models. Learn the secrets of experts that will make you an expert in beauty retouch!

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop CS5 choose Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press. The 14 project-based lessons in this book show readers step-by-step the key techniques for working in Photoshop CS5.